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Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Just who is responsible for vetting nominees over at Dubya's house?

Bush's Candidate for SEC Job Accused of Misleading Investors AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - President Bush's nominee to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission is targeted in a class-action lawsuit by investors accusing him of fraud for failing to disclose financial problems at Aetna Inc. when he was its top executive.
William H. Donaldson, chosen by Bush Tuesday to become the nation's top corporate regulator after more than a year of scandals at numerous companies, was named in the lawsuit filed last year in federal court in New York.
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You know, maybe it wasn't entirely Harvey Pitt's fault that he chose William Webster to head the new accounting oversight board.